Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Feb 13 - 07:53 AM

sending more love

sandra

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 18 Feb 13 - 06:15 AM

Ya had me scared fer a minute there, Spaw. Side by side? Great. Shoulder to shoulder? Fer sure. But I'd be straight up nervous if ya ever got my behind... er... got behind me.

Freudian slap?

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Feb 13 - 06:05 AM

Geeziz.....That's unbelievably great coming from a gnu. Maybe we need to consult with a yak and a warthog as well and forget about the religious leaders.........

Nigel, I'd say I can only stand behind gnu...............Then again maybe not literally as that could be bad...........Damn good advice though.


Spaw

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Feb 13 - 08:33 PM

gnu, not everyone with religious credentials has what it takes to give counsel like that.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 17 Feb 13 - 08:21 PM

Nigel. I recently went thru such trauma. Not with someone so close as you are experiencing so I can't imagine your despair. The only words I can offer are these. Love her. Accept the future now, all the while hoping for a miracle, as we must. Talk with her of good things of the past, whatever those could be (only you can know of them) and how they matter to you and to those she loves. Most importantly, reinforce the good things of the past to provide the solace of knowing it was ALL worthwhile... EVERY minute of it.

I'll stop there. I am no priest and I certainly ain't no saint. Just an ordinary guy who wishes he could shoulder some of your burden and knows he can't.

I ain't religious much at all needer, but... God Bless.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 17 Feb 13 - 07:52 PM

That 11:53am post was me, on Mom's computer up in West Virginia. Home now and logged in, and still sending light and love.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Feb 13 - 11:53 AM

Breathe love in. Breathe love out.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: maeve
Date: 17 Feb 13 - 08:30 AM

Dear Nigel- I'm so sorry. I offer the following:

"Bear where thou goest the word of love
Say all that words can say
Changeless affections strength to prove
But speed upon the way"

"Row On"
Listen here...

Maeve

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 17 Feb 13 - 08:24 AM

Nigel and Ann,

just sending love and hugs,hope you both have a peaceful Sunday, be kind to yourselves today to give you strength for whatever tomorrow brings.

always in my prayers and thoughts

Wendy xxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 17 Feb 13 - 07:36 AM

Tried to write something cogent this morning, there are so many wonderful posts, full of love, compassion & music...my tears got in the way. So moved by the presence of all You Good People & so horrified & scared by what Jane showed me yesterday. She has a tumour the shape of a small American football on her right hip. It was all I could do to stop myself from exclaiming out loud. I settled for a muted OMG. X-ray, scan results tomorrow, but she has received no chemotherapy since December because of her weight loss & the administration of steroids. Ann & I are haunted by the thought of what further damage the unchecked cancer could be perpetrating. The hip tumour may well be partial evidence; who knows? What to do, what to do?
                With Love to You All,
                                                Nigel & Ann.
                                                xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Feb 13 - 11:58 PM

I should have included a link...there is a sample of "Sisters now our meeting is over" as sung by Libana. Of course one can replace "sister" with whomever. It's a beautiful song.

CLICK, choose the cd entitled A Circle Is Cast, then scroll down to the last song.

Much love,

kat

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Feb 13 - 09:02 PM

Like so many others, I'm sending love. I am sorry the seas have turned so stormy.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: rumanci
Date: 16 Feb 13 - 08:21 PM

Love, hope, hugs all positive, upward and safely anchored. Holding fast.
rum

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Feb 13 - 06:59 PM

Yes, we'll land on the shore/yes we'll land on the shore/yes we'll land on the shore/and be safe forever more

Holding you all in the light and giving thanks for ease and comfort through the rocky shoals.

much love,

kat

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 16 Feb 13 - 06:14 PM

Keeping you in my thoughts, Nigel.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 16 Feb 13 - 02:36 PM

thoughts and prayers- nigel,ann,jane in these hard times.

lovely songs maeve and poetic expression.
blessings    pete.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: maeve
Date: 16 Feb 13 - 10:32 AM

Sending "Courage" "Courage" by Cindy Kallet & Grey Larsen- lyrics here.

"Going Away"- Utah Phillips- Sung by friends
Maeve

PS- Thanks, Pat.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Feb 13 - 09:10 AM

Best love and good thoughts as time inevitably passes.........Holding you tight.


Spaw

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 16 Feb 13 - 09:02 AM

More from Staffs as well.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 16 Feb 13 - 07:16 AM

Oh dear. My thoughts & prayers continue.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 16 Feb 13 - 04:56 AM

Nigel and Ann,

just sending " the best kind of love"

xxxxxxx

Wendy

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 16 Feb 13 - 03:08 AM

Just checking in to let you all know that Ann & I are ok, but we're becoming increasingly concerned about Jane. The cancer has made her bones so brittle that she may well have broken her hip. She's been back in hospital this week. I'll know more after the weekend. Ann's been with her all week, I've been at home because of my own appointments. There is a building momentum with Jane's state of health of a kind that is starting to make us deeply anxious. Methinks that spot on the horizon is closer than we thought.
             With Love to You All,
                                             Nigel & Ann.
                                             xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Feb 13 - 12:29 AM

By the time I heard that chorus a couple of times, I was picturing a number of good moments in my life that had little or nothing to do with words.

May the whole "crew" have a night of quiet rest; then UP ye all.: )

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Feb 13 - 09:13 PM

I heard a song on the TV program, "Judging Amy," many years ago that just struck me hard with a combination of tune and lyrics. I like the writer, Peter Himmelman, who did all the music for the show. It took him years to record it and it finally hit YouTube.

The song's name is "The Best Kind of Answer." Why am I posting this stuff here? Because there is something in the lyric that speaks to me about the transcendency of real love......that love is all powerful and can heal our pain and transcend words. This isn't to say I don't like to say the word. On the contrary! But it's like knowing that people in this group love each other and their families.
The kind of love that you know is there when you just look into the eyes of someone. Nigel and Ann......Is there any doubt that Jane knows how much you care just by looking at the two of you? Wendy? Know what I mean? I know Janie does.....and Maeve though none of us have met.

The song says the best kind of love can wash away pain, and the best kind of answer has no sound.   I believe that......I really do. Enjoy.

The Best Kind of Answer


Spaw

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 15 Feb 13 - 07:23 PM

Up Spaw, Jane, billybob, tommy, et. al.!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Feb 13 - 10:01 PM

Well. Billybod,


there are advantages to hindsight....

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 14 Feb 13 - 09:33 PM

Ah Wendy, a good sense of humor is a precious gift to remember we have on occasion, eh?

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 14 Feb 13 - 07:39 AM

Note to self ........ when mother sits down make sure her glasses are on her nose and not beneath her derriere!!

whoot,
rowing on......

Wendy xxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 09:41 PM

My heart feels warmed by all of you.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 06:41 PM

"It brings on the feeling of normalcy and usefulness like nothing else for me."... cool. I can relate to that, Spaw.

Wire brush sideways.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 06:10 PM

UP HIGHER, SPAW!
Frogprince, that's one of my favorite songs by Mustard's Retreat.
Nigel, I think Jane's plan to do one special thing each day is wise. And as she moves around her kitchen, she might gradually rebuild some strength.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 05:56 PM

Let me report that the UP campaign has met with moderate success!!! I was overjoyed to find that I maintained the same number from last week. When you have been going down pretty regularly that's damn good. We'll see where we are next week and continue on from there. Throw in the occasional UP thought if you get a chance and I thank you for all the ones given last week that seemed to help!!!

Nigel, tell Jane I know something of what she feels.   I love to cook and those times over the past years when things have been bad, I never felt right or myself again until I was cooking. It brings on the feeling of normalcy and usefulness like nothing else for me. Everyone has something different I suppose but I can really identify with Jane in the kitchen.   

Sending a giant cast iron soup kettle of great thoughts Jane's way today!


Spaw

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 03:58 PM

Something else that has spoken to me for several years now . David Tamulevich, on the right, wrote it; they're in our area, and we get to see them fairly often

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 12:42 PM

lovely to read of janes positive and thoughtful spirit and enjoyment of accomplishment in the kitchen when she might justifyably not have found the energy.good too,nigel ,to see that your music construction is countering the depression.
continueing to wish the best to the well known folkie and to wendys brother in law.[i,m sure the 13th is incidental!]

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 11:44 AM

Who wouldn't?

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 04:37 AM

I guess I've been taking a bit of a back seat over the past few days...been concentrating on composing. Apart from the fact that it's something I enjoy immensely, the 'creative process' has helped lift the severe depressive episodes I have been experiencing over the last month or so. What is also pleasing is to read your posts, safe in the knowledge that our Thread is in good hands.
       So we have information about the snow storm in America & Canada; beautiful words from a beautiful song (would it be considered a hymn?)...more folks in need of our thoughts & prayers...interesting personal anecdotes & a cheery sprinkling of humour. Nourishment for the Heart & Mind.
       Jane is 'between treatments'. She has finished with the radiotherapy, but can't resume chemo for another couple of weeks. She remains cheerful, but needs plenty of timeouts to rest. Jane is trying to set herself one, achievable task, job, a pleasurable, personal moment. One special thing for each day. So far, she has not missed a day. She is a wiz in the kitchen, so that's where she often ends up, but what the hell, her sense of satisfaction & achievement is worth it's weight in gold. Jane has even gone out of her way to make (and buy) diabetic friendly food, just for me. With everything she has on her mind, she still makes time for others. I love her so much.
      Keep warm, stay safe,
                                       With Love,
                                                      Nigel & Ann.
                                                      xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 12 Feb 13 - 08:04 PM

Rise Up Thread!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 11 Feb 13 - 07:38 PM

Wendy, I hope your brother-in-law recovers quickly and fully.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Feb 13 - 07:42 AM

adding my good wishes to the UK folkie - & everyone!

sandra

Pete, you need to be a member to send a Personal Message. If you want to join Mudcat, send an email to [e-mail] & he will join you up.

To send a PM you either click on the little blue PM in the From: line or go to your personal page & search for the member's name.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 11 Feb 13 - 07:36 AM

I too lived in Toronto for a year in 1980, we were on St Clair, loved the city in winter, a different cold to the UK!I remember taking the children to see Niagera falls when it was frozen very beautiful!

Pete my friend is very well known in Kent, thank you for your prayer!
Now we have heard that my brother in law in New Jersey has had a heart attack. What is going on ? Is it because the year has a 13 in it?

Sailing on with love to all aboard,

Wendy xxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 11 Feb 13 - 07:00 AM

hi bruce-we went to the toronto area some years ago [i know its a long way from you] and the first day there i went for a cycle along the lake.it was very refreshing but perishing cold,even without snow.

hi wendy-is this folkie a regular at footscray or kemsing sessions?
apart from those i mostly do open mics.i dont know how to do a pm but maybe if he wanted me to know he will mention it.
posted with a prayer-God knows who he is.
blessings    pete.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 10:11 PM

Thank you so much, Allison.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 08:55 PM

Hello, all. Here in New Hampshire it was just a blizzard out of the good old days. We didn't even lose power! Alouette and I and a few of our friends attended the village church service this morning, at the request of a dear woman celebrating her 90 th birthday today. All she wanted for her birthday was for the five of us to sing a sweet song we do called "Here in this place" by Peter Fischmann, about the beauty of rural New England in February. The chorus goes:

Here in this place, I have all I ever wanted.
Here in this place, I have everything I need.
I have love, I have beauty, I have grace,
Here in this place.

I am grateful that I can sing this song with a full heart- every word is true. May it be true for us all.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 08:42 PM

billybob best friend - best wishes... T&Ps.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 08:17 PM

Good thoughts on their way to your anonymous friend, billybob.

Nigel, there is a thread about the recent storm In the US and Canada here. thread.cfm?threadid=149449&messages=108 In the US, Connecticut may have got the worst of it.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 12:35 PM

good thoughts needed for one of my best friends, had some chemotherapy recently for some months, now having stem cells taken tomorrow, he is a very well known folk musician in the UK , but would not like me to mention his name. But mudcat mojo is going to help I know. Pete, I think you may know who he is so pm me and I will give you more information.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 12:01 PM

I could tell that last photo was a fake; if gnu had peed that hole in the snow, the snow around it would have been yellow.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 11:11 AM

Hey, Pete. Howzit? Just fooling around with the summer scene remark. Gnu would understand because that's often what people think the country is like year 'round. We had a wee bit of snow--a half meter in places. Nothing major. At least nothing to prevent people getting out and about.

Good 'seeing' you.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 08:52 AM

Good morning all and UPSPAW!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 08:32 AM

did you say summer scene bruce!